Good summary. But maybe there were mitigating circumstances. Imagine, with the horror of the Holocaust, the onward march of dehumanizing social system...
LND lecture 7 (continued) On to the critique of Bergson's and Husserl's attempted breakouts: He starts by summarizing their views. Bergson's solution ...
OK, sticking with Kant then. Fair enough. But do you agree it's important to make the distinction I made, or do you stand by the conflation of epistem...
The trouble is that the first statement I've bolded is a stronger claim than the second, whereas you're implying that they say the same thing. Is it t...
It looks to me like you're talking about what Hegel does prior to the move from indeterminate to indeterminateness that Adorno examines, because Hegel...
Yes! I was going to say something about that. But I think what it means is that the breakout from the conceptual can only happen conceptually, through...
Yes, that's fair. It looked like he was referring only to the revolutionary seizure of the means of production because he was taking on Marx's viewpoi...
Yes, I think this is the tension that Adorno is dealing with. I think it's fair to say he is often arguing for a bottom-up approach against the higher...
LND lecture 7 (Should I wait and allow people to catch up? Should we set a schedule from now on?) In lecture 6 Adorno spoke of the big challenge facin...
I have some difficulty with Adorno's view that the kind of singing I've been celebrating here---the close microphone technique enabled by recording te...
Cool. I just wanted to emphasize the objective element of technological affordance (I won't say determinism) and the co-evolution of technology and mu...
On the other hand, the microphone could be seen to have allowed music to return to a time before concert halls. It allowed singers to sing like they u...
Rock music does have a lot of screaming banality, but I wouldn't say that exemplifies microphone singing. Think instead of Billie Holiday (soft and em...
The crucial technological changes took place in jazz shortly before rock n roll: amplification to allow guitars to be heard over the other instruments...
So in the postmodern era, the creation of art is coercive, like forcing an elephant into someone's imagination by telling them not to think of an elep...
But the second sentence would seem to suggest that the first sentence isn't quite right: more than the pointing is required, namely agreement—and gene...
The taste of freedom is the taste of violence and domination :grin: In a new twist, today I went to one of the many what-used-to-be McDonalds but are ...
:grin: They're free enough to get Coca-Cola from innumerable points along the very long border. A lot of the Coke I've seen is Chinese. But the locall...
Not much there I disagree with. But... I'm not quite sure what you mean here. When he says that "the forces of production, in other words human energi...
I think what I secretly want is to read it again and have my previous opinion confirmed, but this time backed up by greater knowledge and penetrating ...
The answer is simple: I read it years ago and my taste has changed, so instead of continuing to say I don't like it I ought to see if maybe I do like ...
If I'm in the middle of the scale of mediocrity, I'm simultaneously the most mediocre and not the most mediocre, and the most mediocre is thereby not ...
I lived for a while in the North of England and this practice was quite common, though not necessarily a whole pint. Many people in Britain call dinne...
My favourite leftovers are rice, with which I make egg fried rice; potatoes, with which I make fried potatoes and fried eggs; and chili con carne, wit...
Quite persuasive. I might try it again. I don’t feel comfortable on this “Great Gatsby is overrated” bandwagon. Although, even if it’s great, naming i...
Yes, certainly with Adorno there is always a goal into which everything has to fit, namely… But a goal of earlier socialists was to dominate nature: F...
LND lecture 6 (continued) I'll take a look at the linguistic analysis. Referring back to my previous post... Dare I say that the linguistic analysis i...
Yes, along with the stuff about the domination of nature, this helps to answer a question that always haunts me, which is, what is theory for anyway? ...
I sort of get the feeling sometimes people don't take him as seriously as they should because he couldn't make up his mind, but of course, that willin...
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